How about a positive/negative ratio? Or an overall score rating rather than a ratio? For following objectives given by your squad leader and getting kills and whatnot you get points, for not following orders and getting killed and whatnot you loose points. That encourages squad unity and team work. Maybe make it so that the higher your overall score for the match was, the bigger your SP and ISK bonus at the end of the battle. You could have this score out next to K/D ratio and people would be able to see who was just going for kills and who was actually working as a team with their squad to complete objectives.

Ok, I KNOW it's picky, but KDR is a ratio and CANNOT be negative! It can be greater than one or less than one, but unless you kill negative people or die negative times it must be a positive number.

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How about a positive/negative ratio? Or an overall score rating rather than a ratio? For following objectives given by your squad leader and getting kills and whatnot you get points, for not following orders and getting killed and whatnot you loose points. That encourages squad unity and team work. Maybe make it so that the higher your overall score for the match was, the bigger your SP and ISK bonus at the end of the battle. You could have this score out next to K/D ratio and people would be able to see who was just going for kills and who was actually working as a team with their squad to complete objectives.

It's just statistics, don't let it bother you or just laugh at how good/bad you are.
it matters little what gets recorded and what does not.

How about both KDR and WPs displaying at the end of a match. We need to know whose pulling their own weight and someone who runs around and needlessly hacks points isn't doing anything if they aren't keeping the enemy at bay.

in my humble opinion, a kdr promotes a singularly competitive environment, ie one where the kdr is king and *some players will relentlessly pursue the best kdr they can, often to the detriment of the squad/team/corp. Personally, I feel the only statistics that are important are corp stats. However, this may just be because I sacrifice kdr for the benefit of the greater good.

Another post about this inspired me to write this. What if a player got to choose if he wants to have a K/D ratio or not? There are always players who seek just to have fun and and be relaxed while playing and not worry about negative K/D ratio. You could have an option when creating a character to choose if you want to have K/D ratio on it or not?

The only problem I have with k/d ratio is thats all that is measured.

It does not include stuff like capturing important points, how many people you saved with a nanite injector, ect. If it is to be used a a measurement then it better include alot more info.

The other problem with the k/d method is some people only look to fill that kill side and tend to not be very interested in helping capture and hold a point. A good example is a dropships flying around with all seats full but never trying to land and capture a point they just ride around getting +25 for the gunners kills. Thing is we could use those extra people on the ground instead of just riding around getting SP's. Its not like they can shoot out the doors with the gunners.....